Best programming and hacker quotes. Ever.
Curated by fellow hackers Jarmo Pertman & Andri Möll
All problems in computer science can be solved with another level of indirection.
David Wheeler
Great things are not done by impulse, but by a series of small things brought together.
Vincent van Gogh
If it is worth doing once, it is worth automating...
Anonymous
When a professor insists computer science is X but not Y, have compassion for his graduate students.
Alan J. Perlis
The computer reminds one of Lon Chaney -- it is the machine of a thousand faces.
Alan J. Perlis
In essence, let the market design the product.
Paul Graham
A startup now can be just a pair of 22 year old guys. A company like that can move much more easily than one with 10 people, half of whom have kids.
Paul Graham
God did not create the world in seven days; for six days he screwed around and then pulled an all-nighter.
Anonymous
In C, its easy to shoot yourself in the foot. C++ makes it more difficult, but when you do, you'll blow your whole leg off.
Stroustrup
I’ve finally learned what ‘upward compatible’ means. It means we get to keep all our old mistakes.
Dennie van Tassel